Leaders face constant pressure to move fast and hit targets. The risk isn't a single bad decision, it's the small compromises that start to look reasonable. What are tomorrow's leaders learning from watching how we handle that pressure today?
Updated April 2026 - A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined by the IEC 61511 standard as an “investigation, based on evidence, to judge the functional safety achieved by one or more SIS and/or other protection layers.” The ultimate goal of an FSA is to make the team confident that their instrumented safety system will reliably achieve the risk reduction needed. While many organizations understand the importance of FSAs, not everyone realizes the significant advanta
